Per the Daily Mail, the imams there are bandying about the name Rushdie to impress upon the faithful the magnitude of her sin. The Telegraph is more specific: “Sheikh Abdul Jalil Karuri, a leading cleric, whipped up a crowd attending at the city’s Martyr’s Mosque by telling them Gillian Gibbons had deliberately named her class’s teddy bear Mohammed “with the intention of insulting Islam.’” Meanwhile, I’m curious as to why there are no photos of this very angry, very photogenic mob on the wires. A dearth of photojournalists in Khartoum, perhaps? Government media blackout? Or, like Gillian Gibbons’s own son, are the news bureaus worried about protecting the, ahem, other victims here?

“I don’t want the verdict to lead to any anti feeling towards Muslims. Everyone has been very nice, but one of my fears, and I imagine my mother’s also, will be that this results in any sort of resentment towards Muslim people.”

The Muslim Council of Britain, for the record, railed against the verdict and the American Islamic Congress has been doing a bang-up job agitating on Gibbons’s behalf. There’s a hint in the Daily Mail piece that she might be released early, probably just to make this go away before it causes any more headaches internationally for the Sudanese government. Perhaps they’ll placate the mob by setting the janjaweed off on another round of merrymaking in Darfur.

Look on the bright side. She’s in for a big media payday once she gets back to the UK, assuming she makes it back. Exit question: How ’bout some British Muslim counterprotests, hey?

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“I don’t want my assasination to lead to any anti feeling towards the KKK. Everyone has been very nice, but one of my fears, and I imagine my mother’s also, will be that this results in any sort of resentment towards the KKK.” -Medgar Evers

also the demonstrations smack of rent a mob, every muslim i have spoken to about this has said it is insane and ridiculous, all have said to me they want her released. The chair of the MBC was on TV last night absoloutly bashing the sudanese ambassador to his face.

You blow up some kids in a pre-school, a dozen teenagers in a pizza joint. You murder a couple high-profile infidels in the street…and an entire movie industry of hateful little infidels turns into lambs who make movies attacking the other infidels.

By the way, in case you conservative-Chicagoans-who-look-for-reasons-to-explode-into-self-righteous-outrage missed this one, dhimmitude hits the Chicago Tribune in full force.

This brainless little puff piece was on the front page, for no apparent reason. The irresistable combination of “disenfranchised black men” and the religion of pieces, making everything right in the multi-culti haven of Hyde Park.

“I’m curious as to why there are no photos of this very angry, very photogenic mob” – you know who would be at the front. I was expecting to click on the link and find a picture of Mr Islamic Rage Man, but alas I was let down. Perhaps the media is wise to his ubiquitousness.

By the way, in case you “conservative-Chicagoans-who-look-for-reasons-to-explode-into-self-righteous-outrage” missed this one, dhimmitude hits the Chicago Tribune in full force.

This brainless little puff piece was on the front page, for no apparent reason. The irresistable combination of “disenfranchised black men” and the religion of pieces, making everything right in the multi-culti haven of Hyde Park.

Please allow me to repeat my comment on an earlier post for those of you that may have missed it.
School administrators pay close attention, this is where the road of zero tolerance leads.
Zero intelligence, zero compassion, and zero justification for your thoughtlessness.

As one of the links pointed out, British Muslims have a perfect opportunity to voice their distain and show the rest of their countrymen that they are not irrational and violent. They should be marching in the streets, as many British Muslims did during the cartoon wars.
I am afraid that they will squander this opportunity… As has been said of the Palestinians, they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.Allah, if you can catch any action on the streets of the U.K. I surely would like to see it.

This is what happens when you cut back on the number of aircraft carriers in your fleet, like Britain. The natives threaten to kill your citizens over teddy bears.

The British should ominously state that their citizens must leave the Sudan immediately. All Sudanese money in British banks should be frozen. Air service to Sudan should stop. There are a hundred ways to put pressure on Sudan.